A standard history of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet region, Volume I, Part 2

Author: Howat, William Frederick, b. 1869, ed
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 532


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CHAPTER XXVI


EAST CHICAGO (INDIANA HARBOR)


FOUNDING OF EAST CHICAGO-GEN. JOSEPH F. TORRENCE AND HIS WORK-THE EAST CHICAGO COMPANY-MR. AND MRS. GEORGE W. LEWIS-THE CORPORATION-THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES-THE COMMER- CIAL CLUB-PUBLIC SCHOOLS-STATISTICS-EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM-EAST CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL-THE METHODIST CHURCH- ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH-ST. STANISLAUS PARISH-OTHER EAST CHICAGO CHURCHES-THE METHODISTS AT INDIANA HARBOR -- THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH-THE I. O. O. F .- KNIGHTS OF THE MAC- CABEES-MASONIC BODIES-KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND PYTHIAN SISTERS-THE D. A. R .- MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA-LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE-OTHER FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS .417


CHAPTER XXVII CITY OF WHITING


AS A TOWN-CITY IMPROVEMENTS-WHITING'S PUBLIC PARK-MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS-THE PUBLIC LIBRARY-THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM -SACRED HEART CATHOLIC PARISH-METHODISM AT WHITING-ST. JOHN BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH-ST. ADALBERT'S PARISH-THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH-SECRET AND BENEVOLENT BODIES 439


CHAPTER XXVIII CROWN POINT


GENERAL ADVANTAGES AND SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS-TOWN CORPORATION -PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND UTILITIES-HEALTHFUL LOCATION- TELEPHONE SERVICE-BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY-PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CROWN POINT-CHURCHES-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC PARISH-EVANGEL- ICAL LUTHERAN TRINITY-OTHER CHURCHES-LODGES .448


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CHAPTER XXIX


TOWN OF HOBART


INCORPORATED AS A TOWN-INDUSTRIES OF THE PLACE-LIGHT AND WATER SUPPLY-HOBART TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM- CHURCHES OF HOBART-ST. BRIDGET'S PARISH-SWEDISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERANS-THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH-THE LODGES. .458


CHAPTER XXX


TOWN OF LOWELL


REPRESENTS SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-FOUNDING OF THE TOWN- PIONEER LOCAL INSTITUTIONS-LARGEST BUILDINGS IN THE COUNTY- STRONGEST TEMPERANCE TOWN-EFFECTS OF 1898 FIRE-BETTER FIRE PROTECTION AND WATER SERVICE-THE LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL- OAKLAND PARK-CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES. 466


INDEX


Abandoned District Schools Nos. 4 and 9 (views), 208 About to Break Ground at Gary (view), 387


Acker, Walter, 845


Adams, James, 35


Agitation for better courthouse, 106


Agnew, David, 78


Agnew, Nancy, 93


Agricultural education, 221 Ahlborn, William, 858


Ainsworth, 184 Albright, John W., 644 All Saints' Catholic Church, 371 Allaben, Max F., 563


Allen, J. G., 733 Allman, Amos, 587 Allman, Claude W., 578


Allman, Walter L., 588


Allman-Gary Title Company, 637 Along the Grand Calumet River (view), 300 Alschuler, H., 689 Aluminum factory, 306 Ambridge, 322


American Bridge Company, 322, 622


American Conduit Company, 310


American Maize Company, 302


American Potato Machinery Company, 520


American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, 319, 864


American Steel Foundries, 305, 801


American Trust and Savings Bank of Hammond, 551 Ames, Edward P., 137 Ames, Nannie W., 137 Ames, Samuel, 137


An Improved Country Road (view), 276 An Independent Plant (view), 323 Antiquities, 24 Antiquities, relics and curiosities, 82 Arnott, Thomas, 498 At the Gary Iron Ore Docks (view), 318 Attempts to remove county seat, 110 Aubry, Edward A., 551 "Aunt Susan" Turner, 69, 97 Austgen, Peter, 554


Babbitt, W. S., 258 Bader, G. J., 733


Bailey, Charles T., 683


Bailey, James B., 639


Bailey, Levi E., 597


Bailey, Louis J., 780


Baldwin Locomotive Works, 284


Ball Boarding School, 205


Ball, Charles, 256


Ball, Hervey, 48, 227


Ball, Jane A., teacher and doctor, 92


Ball, Jane A. H., 205


Ball, T. H., 73, 82


Ball's description of the Calumet re- gion, 2 Baltimore & Ohio R. R., 267


Bank of Whiting, 331, 612


Banks and bankers, 325


Banks, N. P., 491


Baptist churches for colored people, 410 Baptist pioneers, 49 Baptists, 365, 410


Barker, Harry B., 807


Barnes, Lewis E., 697


Barnett, Fred, 517


Barney, C. M., 794


Bauer, Carl E., 525


Beach, Spencer L., 579


Beautiful Lake Prairie, 134 Becker, John C., 692


Beeker, Lawrence, 235, 628


Beekman, John F., 545


Beckman, John N., 544


Beckman, J. William, 524


Behnke, Ed, 771 Behnke, George B., 771


Bell, Samuel A., 845 Bell, T. Edwin, 570 Belman, William C., 494


Belshaw, George, 197


Belshaw, J. Will, 600


Belshaw station, 197


Belt lines, 277


Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 377, 415 Bennett, H. W., 711 Bennett, Royal W., 711 Berg, George, 661


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Berg, Peter A., 605 Berry Lake, 34 Betz, F. S., 302 Betz Manufactory, 302 Bick, Peter H., 544 Bieker, Henry, 535 Bieker, William, 515 Birds, 6


Black, Walter G., 729


Blank, A. M., 717


Blockie, George G., 534


Boardman, Carl, 748


Boggess, Walter T., 830


Bonded indebtedness, 120


Boone, David E., 833


Bormann, Frank, 769


Bormann, Otto C., 768


Bortz, Harry, 794


Bowen, Charles E., 696


Bowers, John O., 549


Brand, Henry, 737 Brandenburg. Elmer D., 559


Brennan, John A., 621


Brink, C. C., 710


Broadway in the Rough (view), 387 Brown, Alexander F., 54


Brown ditch, 156


Brown, John, 156, 325, 589


Browns of Eagle Creek, 54


Bruce, Milo M., 559


Bruce, Otto J., 586


Bruhn, Daniel, 856


Brunswick, 166


Bryan, Asahel, 475


Bryan, Louis A., 475


Bryant settlement, 41


Budnik, Peter, 694


Buettner, Philipp, 524


Bullock, Asa C., 802


Bullock Brothers, 802


Bullock, Gilbert D., 802


Bunnell, Eben N., 508


Burke, James E., 788


Burke, John B., 793


Burning of slaughter house, 297


Burton, Charles P., 772


Business Men's Association, 450 Butler, William, 37


Cabin, The, and its furniture, 62 "Call," The, 250 Call, Harry, 709 Call, John W., 495 Callahan, Frank, 688


Calumet industrial region, 71


Calumet Laundry, 695 Calumet muskrats and ducks, 28 Calumet region, 2. 28


Calumet region industries, 285


Calumet Township, created, 105; popu- lation, 114; valuation, 122; area, 128; early industry, 128; towns, 129; pi- oneers, 133


"Calumet," The, 253


Calvert, Ernest R., 805 Calvert-Downer Hardware Co., 805 Campbell, Alexander J., 598


Campbell. Cyrus W., 541


Canine, Edwin N., 648 Care of the county poor, 108 Carlson, Alfred, 815


Carnegie Library, Whiting, 441


Carnegie Library, Crown Point, 450


Carr, Homer J., 850


Castle, J. M., 607


- Catholics, 55, 63, 167, 368, 371, 372, 406, 444 Cedar Creek, 135


Cedar Creek pioneers, 136


Cedar Creek Township, created, 104; pop- ulation, 115; valuation, 126; area, 134; formed, 134; pioneers, 134; first settlers, 138; towns, 140; oldest set- tler, 142


Cedar Lake Baptist Church, 51 Cedar Lake's early fame, 145 Census of cities, 116


Center Township, created, 101; popula- tion, 115; valuation, 125; area, 144; physical features, 144; first settle- ments, 145; eastern settlement, 149; education and religion, 149; towns, 149; transportation. 153


Central Investment and Realty Com- pany, 649


Champion Potato Machinery Company of Hammond, 302, 510 Champion Rivet Company, 631


Chapman, John B., 46


Chase. Charles W., 774


Cheshire and Youche antiquities, 24


Cheshire, Hall, 212 Cheshire, William W., 211


Chester, Charles E., 784


Chicago & Calumet Terminal, 418


Chicago Avenue east of Forsyth Avenue (view), 425


Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Rail . way, 282


Chidlaw, Benjamin W., 565


Childers, Mrs. Thomas, 90 Christ Episcopal Church, Gary, 409 Christian Church, 367, 433, 446, 464 Christian church workers, 94


Christians, 367 Christy, Joseph, 812 Church of St. John the Evangelist, 187 Church, Richard, 52


Cities in the Calumet region, 116


Citizens German National Bank, 330, 568 Citizens Trust & Savings Bank of Indi- ana Harbor, 333, 666 City of Gary, 314 City Hall, Gary, 395 Civil War record, 255 Clark, George W., 71


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Clark, J. S., 699 Clark, James T., 824 Clark, William, 227 Clark, Mrs. William, 90 Clarke, George W., 304 Clarke station, 131 Claussen, John H., 479


Clements, James, 655 Cleveland, Timothy, 231


Clinton, F. W., 646


Cogshall, B. L., 809


Coming industries, 310 Commencement of the resort business, 151


Commercial Bank, 330


Commercial Bank of Crown Point, 335 Commercial Club, 422


Condensed account of the semi-centen- nial, 66


Condit & McGinnity, 645


Condit, G. P., 645 Congregational Church, 432


Congregationalists, 364


Congressional and legislative districts, 239


Conkey, W. B., plant, 298 Conkey, Walter B., 553


Consolidated schools. 222


Co-operative Construction Company, 857 Courthouse, temporary, 102; frame, 106;


agitation for better, 106; of 1880, 107; remodeled and enlarged, 108


Country around the southern bend of Lake Michigan (map), 286


County buildings, 106


County Courthouse, Crown Point (view), 107


County divided into three townships, 101 County elections, 72 County officers, 100 County organization, 43, 100


County poor, care of, 108


County schools, 218


County seat, 76; fight, 103; attempts to remove, 110


Craig, Alexander P., 806 Craig, W. L., 634 Cravens, Lincoln V., 563 Crawford, H. D., 686 Creeks, 2 Creston, 141 Cronin, Charles C., 847 Crooks, William B., 36 Crops which crowded out the fur trade, 29


Crowell, Eugene H., 599


Crown Point, first settler at, 36; first colony at, 74; named, 76; wins county seat fight, 103; earliest newspaper center, 245; general advantages and special attractions, 448; town corpora- tion, 449; public improvements and utilities, 449; healthful location, 450;


telephone service, 450; public schools, 450; churches, 456; lodges, 457 Crown Point Methodist Church, 52 "Crown Point Register," 246 Crumpacker, Peter, 237 Cudahy products, 308


Curtis, Harvey J., 748


Cutler, Abbie, 261 Cutler, Leonard, 52


Dalby, H. A., 853 Dalrymple, Otto W., 853


Daughters of the American Revolution, 415, 436 Daughters of Liberty, 379


Davis Brothers, 289


Davis, Frank H., 741


Davis, George F., 190


Davis, George W., 617


Davis, Hoy D., 757


Deathe, George M., 662


Dearbeyne, Arden, 820


Deaver, Arthur G., 838


Decade of "hard times," 112


Deep River, 44


DeLong, Charles A., 753


Dencer, Frederick W., 814


Dewey, J. S., 706


Dickey, George W., 776


Dille, George W., 147


Dilschneider, Peter J., 550


Dinwiddie, John W., 160


Dinwiddie, Margaret, 94


Dinwiddie, Mrs. M. J., 84


Disappearance of the old Robinson house, 38 Disciples of Christ, 407, 446, 464


Discovery of Robinson's prairie, 73


Doak, George S., 816


Doescher, Herman, 164


Donovan, Charles B., 656


Dougan, Walter, 767


Downer, Roswell W., 846


Downey, Henry P., 497


Doyne, James J., 861


Drackert, George, 562


Drainage and ditches, 11


Dubbs, E. E., 668


Duelke, Otto H., 485


Dunn, William M., 729


Dunsing, Joseph W., 649


Dupes, Daniel W., 670


Duroc hogs (view), 191


Dyer, 189


Dyer Consolidated School, St. John Township (view), 186


Eadus, C. T., 804


Eagle Creek Township, created, 104; population, 115; valuation, 126; area, 156; groves, 156; first settlers, 157; present form, 157; schoolhouses, 159; pioneers, 160


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Earle, George, 45


Early figures for North and Hobart townships, 72 Early history, 16


Early physicians of Crown Point, 243


Early road building, 270


Early stage routes, 32


East Cedar Lake teachers, 207


East Chicago, population, 115; area, 177; beginning of, 271; founding of, 304. 418; docks, 308; public libraries, 421; public schools, 422; high school, 429; churches, 430; lodges, 434


East Chicago Bank, 331, 766


East Chicago Company, 419, 665


East Chicago Garage and Sales Com- pany, 636.


"East Chicago Globe," 250


East Side Trust and Savings Bank of Hammond, 543


Ebright, John D., 835


Eckstorm, Harold, 637


Eder, Edward J., 596


Eder, George J., 520


Eder, George M., 568


Edgerton, Horace, 135


Effect of the railroad on primitive life, 264


Eibel, Fred, 755


Electric lines, 275


Electric power plants, 310


Elks Temple, 415


Elliott, A. T., 663


Emerson, 399


Emerson School Building (view), 398


Emmerling, Nicholas, 585


Employes Real Estate and Investment Company, 773


Endress, John C., 574


Enterprise Bed Company, 304


Episcopalians, 366, 409


Erickson. Herbert, 751


Erie R. R., 268


Espey, Hugh S., 753


Escher, Albert E., 565


Evangelicals, 166


Evangelical Immanuel Church, 370


Evangelical Lutherans, Swedish, 464


Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church, 457 Expansion of electric railways, 281 Extent of the fur trade, 26


Fair grounds. 154 Fair grounds near Crown Point (view), 152


Famous long pole bridge, 32


Fancher, Richard, 154


Fancher, Thaddeus S., 231, 608


Farovid, J. R .. 666 Farquharson, William L., 712


Farr. Edwin H., 621 Farrington, W. C., 242


Father of the Superior courthouse, 236 Fathers of Lake County journalism, 246 Faulkner, Clara, 721 Fetterhoff. John H., 609 Fetterer. F. T., 869


Feuer, William S., 860


Field, Elisha C., 237, 759


Fifield, O. G., 777


Finances of Lake County, 116


Financial status of different roads, 120 Finneran, Martin H., 833


Fire department headquarters, Indiana Harbor (view), 418


First Baptist Church, Gary, 410


First Baptist Church, Hammond, 365


First Baptist society formed, 50 First Calumet Trust and Savings Bank, 332, 736


First Christian Church, Gary, 407 First colony at Crown Point, 74


First commissioners' meeting, 101


First Congregational Church, Hammond, 364


First county elections, 72


First election of county officers, 100


First electric line, 275


First Free Soil meeting, 64


First literary societies, 206


First meeting of old settlers, 79


First Methodist Episcopal Church, Gary, 407


First Methodist Episcopal Church, Ham- mond. 362


First Methodist mission, 51


First National Bank of Crown Point, 327


First National Bank of East Chicago, 332. 657


First National Bank of Gary, 333, 822


First National Bank of Hammond, 328, 486


First National Bank of Whiting, 331, 660


First normal school, 213 First of the Calumet industrial re- gion, 71


First practicing lawyer, 229


First Presbyterian Church, Crown Point, 456


First Presbyterian Church, Gary, 410


First Presbyterian Church, Hammond, 368


First railroads in Lake County, 265 First Reformed Church, Gary, 411 First resident farmer, 34


First school in the county, 203


First shipment of refrigerator beef, 292 First State Bank of Tolleston, 333, 770 First teacher, 90, 203


First Teachers' Institute, 210


First traveler, 30


Fitzgerald, Leonard, 752


Fitz Hugh, Luther, Company, 301


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Folk dances. Emerson School, Gary (view), 401 Forsythe. Jacob, 304


Foster, George L., 605


Foster, John M., 257


Founder of the drainage system, 231


Founder of Lowell. 136


Founder of Wiggins Point, 40


Fowler, Charles E., 705


Fowler, Mrs. Luman A., 91


Fox, Francis H., 541


Frame courthouse. 106 Francis, H. C., 775 Frank F. Heighway, County Superintend- ent of Schools (portrait ), 217


Frank, F. F .. 738 Frank, Sol. 861


Franklin School. Griffith (view), 204


Fraternities. 373. 415, 437


Fraternal Order of Eagles, 379, 437


Frederick, George W., 595


Freer, Arthur T., 823


French traders, 20 Friedrich, Charles H., 528


Friends Evangelical Church, 372


Froebel School. 399


Froebel School Building (view), 402


Frost, Joseph, 626


Fry, Alfred, 258 Fuller, Richard, 141 Fulton, William J., 778


Funkey. William J., Jr., 657 Fur trade, 26


Gallagher, William S., 848 Gapczynski. Ignatius, 704 Gardner, William H., 832


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Gary and Its Home Districts, 855 Gary, remarkable growth of, 116; old part of, 129; wonderful rise of, 129; fertile in newspapers, 252; young, but finished, 314; first breaking of ground, 383; first corporate election, 384; town government organized, 384; be- comes a city, 385: increase of corpo- rate territory, 385; light, water and power plants. 388; money expended on, 388: first streets, 390; area and topography, 391: street mileage and improvements, 391; engineering de- partment, 393; city hall, 395; public library, 395: publie school system. 396; school system described, 399; commercial bodies, 405; hospitals, 405: Slav element. 405; churches, 406; churches for foreign born, 413; Y. M. C. A., 413; fraternities, 415


Gary & Interurban Railway, 281


Gary Bolt and Screw Works, 324 Gary Bond and Mortgage Company, 792


Gary-Carnegie Public Library, Fifth Av- enne (view), 394 Gary City Hall and Municipal Headquar- ters, Seventh Avenue and Massachu- setts Street (view), 392


Gary Commercial Club, 317. 787 Gary Construction Company, 804


Gary Evening Post, The, 252. 684


Gary Heat, Light and Water Company, 751 Gary Land Company, 383, 386, 542 Gary Public Library, The, 780


Gary Public School System, The, 480 Gary State Bank, 333, 638


Gary Supply Company, 686


Gary Theater Building, Broadway and Fifth Avenue (view), 414 "Gary Times," 252


"Gary Tribune," 252, 850


Gary Trust and Savings Bank, 334


Gary Union Railroad Depot (view), 278


Gary W. C. T. U., 414


Gary Y. M. C. A., 413


Gary's Y. M. C. A. Building (view), 412


Gastel, Fred, Jr., 667


Gavit, Frank N., 239, 610


Gavit, John A., 576


General View at Ambridge, Gary's Work- ingmen's Suburb (view), 320


Gerlach Brothers, 810


Gerlach, George M., 811


Gerlach, Joseph M., 811


German Catholics, 55


German colonists, 162


German Lutherans. 55


Gerrish, Abiel, 137


Gershman. H., 754


Gibbs, James C., 629


Gibson, 174 Gillespie, C. M., 656


Gillett. John H., 234


Gillis, Robert R., 860


Gilson, Edmond A., 502


Glazebrook, Bradford D. L., 836


Glen Park district, 855 Glen Park Lumber Company, 855


Glen Park School, Calumet Township (view), 204 Gleason, William P., 532


Godwin, L. P., 627 Golden Brothers. 521


Golden, Emory C., 522


Golden, Levi E., 521


Goldschmidt Detinning Company, 307, 678


Gordon, Edward R., 243


Gordon, P. P., 243


Gostlin, William H., Sr., 499 Gostlin, William H., Jr., 501 Gottlieb, Louis I., 790


Graham, Joseph A., 523


Grand Calumet River, 2, 28 Grand railway crossing, 130


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Grand Trunk R. R., 268 Granger, Fred, 525


Granger, Herman E., 534 Granger, Leon J., 826 Grantham, Joseph P., 798 Grasselli Chemical Works, 307


Gravel roads, 275 Graver Tank Works, 310, 634 Graver, J. P., 635 Graver, William, 634 Graytown, 151


Great railroad period, 112 Great railroad strike, 272


Green Engineering Company, 306, 706 Green, Roy E., 617


Greene, Joseph, 241


Greenlee, Cassius M., 627


Greenwald, Charles E., 235


Gregory, A. G., 686


Griffin, Charles F., 232 Griffin, Elihn, 231


Griffith, 130 Griswold, Eugene A., 594


Gross, John A., 865 Groves, 6 Groves. H. K., 766


Grnel, Jolın, 760 Guipe, Harry W., 763


Hack, John, 55, 185 Hale, Raleigh P., 659


Halstead, M. A., 136


Halsted, A. E., 775 Hamilton, Thomas G., 857


Hammond and Hessville, 174


Hammond, judicial headquarters, 105, 109; population, 115; doubles popula- tion, 272; beginning of, 291; founded, 293; municipal incorporation, 336; growth by wards, 338; mayors, 338; city officials, 338; city hall, 340; mu- nicipal government, 340; receipts and expenditures for 1913, 341; future ter- ritory, 342; bonded indebtedness and appropriations. 342; tax levy, 342; city parks, 343; railroads, 343; sew- ers, pavements and sidewalks, 343; new buildings, 344; water system, 344; fire department, 345; police de- partment, 346; parks and the public health, 346; public library, 347; first public library, 348; public schools and educators, 349; churches and societies, 360; fraternities, 373; clubs, 380 Hammond's Chamber of Commerce, 356 Hammond Country Club, 380


Hammond Distillery, 303


Hammond Dramatic Club, 380


Hammond Elevator, 303 Hammond, Frank, 550


Hammond, George H., 289


Hammond, Helen P., 557 Hammond, H. D., 801


Hammond Machine and Forge Works, 856


Hammond's Masonic history, 373


Hammond Pattern and Model Works, 503


Hammond Savings and Trust Company, The, 550


Hammond Settlement House, 381


Hammond Telephone Exchange, The, 530 Hammond, Thomas, 296, 297, 554


Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Line, 282


Hammond Woman's Club, 380


Handley, William L., 583


Hanover Center, 166


Hanover Township, population, 115; valuation, 122; area, 162; first set- tlers, 162; towns, 166; churches, 166


Harries, H. H., 870


Harris, J. Glenn, 638


Hart, A. N., 189


Hartsdale, 192


Hathaway, Henry, 811


Hathaway, Peter, 195


Hay, Henry G., Jr., 638


Hayden, Cyrus, 574


Hayden. Grant, 815


Hayden, Nehemiah, 195


Hayes, Benjamin F., 814


Hayman, Paul, 805


Hazelgreen, A. M., 739


Heck, C. F., 725


Heighway, Frank F., 218, 821


Heintz, Pontus, 789


Helgen, George D., 535


Hepp, J. G., 772


Herlitz, Lewis, 55, 77, 163


Hershman, George E., 591


Herskovitz, Samuel, 650


Hervey Ball Place, 77


Hess, A. S., 785


Hess, Joseph, 174 Hessville, 174


Hessville Consolidated School, North Township (view), 176


Higgins, John, 243


Higgins, John W., 689


Highland, 177


Highlands, H. H., 803


Hill, William A., 557 Hirons, A. N., 861


Hirsch, Max, 782


Historic relic, 23


Historic relics of Lake County pioneers, 66 Historic "short-cut," 13


Historical synopsis, 42 History of public education in Ham- mond, 353 Hixon, Ernest H., 592


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Hobart, in the rough, 170; physicians, 244; railroads, 266; incorporated, 458; industries, 459; light and water sup- ply, 459; public school system, 460; churches, 463; lodges, 465


Hobart Township, created, 105; popula- tion, 115; valuation, 127; formed, 168; area, 168; railroads, 168; pi- oneers, 169; towns, 170


Hobart Township Consolidated High School (view), 169


Hoerstman, H. A., 629


Hoevet, George J., 633 Hoff, William, 743


Hoffman, Clarence I., 825


Hohman boarding house, 291


Hohman, Caroline, 512


Hohman, Charles G., 288, 513


Hohman, Ernst W., 287, 511


Hohman Street, Hammond, in 1882 and Today (views), 295


Hohman Street, North from Sibley, Ham- mond (view), 340


Holliday, Winfred W., 660


Holmes, Carl O., 800


Holton, Harriet W., 89, 203


Holton, Janna S., 246


Holtz, Herman, 571


Holy Angels Catholic Church of Gary, 406, 770


Holy Trinity Croatian Church of Gary, 840 Home builders displace white trappers, 30


Home Lumber Company, 545


Honored dead, 255 Honorof, Peter, 830 Horn, J. C., 757


Hornors, The, 133


Hornor, Amos, 133


Hornor, David, 133


Hoskins, George H., 615 Hospitals, 245 Howarth, William, 503


Howat, William F., 245, 872


Houk, William F., 597 Hubbard Steel Foundries, 309


Hubbard Steel Foundry Company, 708 Huettner, C. A., 712 Hulst, George P., 794 Hunt, Frank L., 602 Hunter, Clyde, 863 Hunter, George M., 623


Hunter, W. D., 788


Hutton, Joseph T., 572 Hyde, Mrs. M. J., 86


Iddings, H. D., 244 Iddings, J. W., 601 Illinois Car and Equipment Company, 301 Illinois, Indiana & Iowa R. R., 268


Immortal "Thanatopsis," 69


Improving the teaching force, 224 Independent Order of Foresters, 376 Indians, 16


Indian burial and dancing grounds, 19


Indian cemetery, 41


Indian trails, 14


Indiana City, 44


Indiana corn field (view), 112


Indiana and Illinois Land Company, 624 Indiana Harbor, 177


Indiana Harbor churches, 433


Indiana Harbor industries, 305


Indiana Harbor Library, 422


Indiana Harbor Lumber and Coal Com- pany, 668


Indiana Harbor National Bank, 332, 732


Indiana Steel Company, 532


Indoor improvement of county schools, 219


Industrial summary, 324


Industries, 285


Inland Steel Company, 304 Innkeepers, 34


Interior pioneer cabin (view), 89


International Lead Refining Company of Indiana, 793


International Trust and Savings Bank of Gary, 644


Interstate Iron and Steel Plant, 308


Jackson, Joseph, 54, 194 Jacobson, E. R., 502 Jahnke, William C., 721 Jail becomes a temperance hall, 103


James, J. Q., 813


Jansen, Thomas F., 770


Jerome, Frank, 673 Jews, 371, 411


Jewish congregations and societies, 371


Jewish temples, 411


John B. Chapman, titles, 46


Johns, Charles, 786


Johnson, August H. W., 576


Johnson, Harry M., 795


Johnson, Ove A., 726 Johnson, Roswell O., 545


Jones, Alfred, 785


Jones, H. E., 771


Judges, 233 Judicial and official accommodations at Hammond, 109


Kankakee region, 9 Kankakee trapping region, 27


Kankakee Valley, 12


Keilman, H. E., 728 Keilmann, Francis P., 188


Kimmel. Charles P., 819


Klass, H., 165


Klassville, 165 Klose, Charles R., 664 Klose, Robert, 664


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Klotz, Theodore C .. 546 Knickerbocker, James, 147 Knickerbocker. John T., 147 Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees, 377


Knights of Columbus, 379


Knights of Pythias, 377, 435


Knights of the Maccabees, 434


Knoerzer, Leonard, 509


Knoerzer, Otto, 510


Knotts, A. F., 238


Knotts. Thomas E., 130, 385, 537


Kolb, William E. J., 548


Kopelke, Johannes, 233, 782


Kostbade, William, 720


Kramer, Jake, Jr., 713


Krinbill, O. A., 531


Krost, Edward A., 490


Krost, John F., 538


Krueger, Bernhardt H., 825


Kunert, William C., 841


Kuss, C. R., 715 Kuss, Louis P., 713


Lake County Bar Association, 239 Lake County's first teacher, 90


Lake County gymnasium, 214


Lake County Medical Society, 244


Lake County soldiers, 256


Lake County Savings and Trust Com- pany, 330, 516 "Lake County Herald," 246 "Lake County Star," 248 Lake Courthouse, 76


Lake Courthouse postoffice, 43


Lake shore routes and travelers, 30


Lake Michigan Land Company, 419


Lake Prairie, 8, 134, 137


Lake Station. 170 Lanman. E. B., 678 Lanman. E. B., Company, 678


Large land owners, 113


La Salle and his braves, 14


La Salle in the Lake Region (view), 15 Lauer, A. J .. 615


Lauer, George, 676


Laws affecting Lake County schools, 210 Lawyers, 227


Leading women of foreign birth, 95 Lennertz, William, 790


Leroy, 200 Leroy School (view), 200 Lew Wallace School, Center Township (view), 148 Lewis, David J., 669 Lewis, George W., 419


Lewis, J. P .. 636 Lieberman, M. D., 868


Lilley, Calvin, 146 Lilley Hotel, 146


Limbert Works, 309


Lincoln Consolidated School (view), 164 Lindmueller, Charles, 678


Lipinski, Paul B., 536 Little Calumet River, 2 Little, Joseph A., 136 Little, Lewis G., 85 Little Red Schoolhouse (view), 223 Little, Thomas, 136


Liverpool, 170 Liverpool founded, 44 Local phases of great railroad strike, 272 Lonesome pioneer sister, 68


Long, J. H., 647 Looking Down Broadway (view), 408 Looking North on Hohman Street, Ham- mond (view), 337 Loyal Order of Moose, 379, 437 Lottaville, 184




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